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We are delighted to announce that we'll be joining the line-up for #hdwf10 ~ with the UK being the leading market for South African wine exports we are really looking forward to sharing our diverse wines with you at the splendid Manchester Cathedral this October.

The 'Care to Taste' Starfish annual wine tasting will be taking place on Thursday 2rd November at 6pm, hosted by Investec.

This very popular annual wine tasting in the heart of the City is back to help ease you into autumn. The event is sure to sell out and will feature a guided tasting, followed by a competitive quiz and chance to win a magnum of Champagne. You will enjoy sparkling wine on arrival and an incredible selection of 12 tasting wines from around the world which will be accompanied by delicious cheese boards.

Money raised on the night will go towards providing healthcare to vulnerable children in rural communities in South Africa. Tickets are available from £30 each or £25 each for a group of 4 and can be booked by clicking the link below.

Diversity and innovative winemaking reaped rich rewards at the 33rd Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild Auction at Spier in the Stellenbosch Winelands over the weekend, with total sales exceeding R13,2 million and a new record price for a case of wine.

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There's been a lot of talk of late about the potential of buying South Africa's fine wines as investments. This is a completely new development, and it's not without its sceptics. But many think the fact that it is being talked about suggests that South Africa's top wines have come of age.
Wine investment is nothing new. The classic well-to-do English wine connoisseur would typically buy more Bordeaux en primeur (the process by which the top wines are offered in the spring following the vintage as futures, before they are even bottled) than he or she needed. Typically, between buying the wines and drinking them, the value of the wines would have increased, so they would sell off some of their wine and, if they were lucky, drink for free.

I fell in love with South Africa and the wines a few years ago. The recent MasterChef UK final took me right back to a holiday I had there. They went to the same Game Reserve that we stayed at and we also went to Reuben Riffel's restaurant in Franschhoek the night before my friends wedding - it was great to see Reuben as a guest judge too! Watching that episode seemed like the perfect excuse to open this beautiful bottle of Semillon from Boekenhoutskloof. What a delicious wine!